Top 10 Summer Holiday Activities for kids in Sydney

Top 10 Summer Holiday Activities for kids in Sydney (with an educational twist!)

As much as we love holidays, it can be a bit of a challenge to find things to do that the whole family will enjoy, especially the kids. Holidays are a great time to take learning outside the classroom and participate in live and interactive events that are exciting and educational. We have compiled a list of 10 super activities for children and parents to attend in Sydney these holidays (in no particular order). Check out the list, complete with times, dates and websites below. Happy holidays!

1) Lego Murals on the Opera house

Imagine your children were given free rein to create a Lego artwork using two walls of our beautiful Sydney Opera House as their blank canvas.

This summer that extraordinary scenario will become a reality. Over three weeks from January 3 – 25 two key walls inside the House will be turned over to kids for Creative Play, a free project that will see children and artists working together to build two gigantic Lego murals on the walls of the Playhouse foyer. More than 200,000 pieces of Lego in different colours and sizes have been ordered from Denmark so that children as young as four can work with the artists to create two large-scale 3-D installations, with a platform ensuring the mural can reach as high as 3.5 metres.

2) Hairy Maclary And Friends

After a sell-out international tour Hairy Maclary and Friends returns to the Sydney Opera House in this interactive stage adaptation of the much-loved Hairy Maclary children’s books, by celebrated writer, Lynley Dodd.

This magical production features much-loved characters, Hercules Morse, as big as a Horse, Bottomley Potts, covered in spots, Schnitzel von Krumm, with the very low tum and Scarface Claw, the toughest tomcat in town.

3) Glow In The Dark – All Day Science Workshop

In this hands-on workshop, budding young scientists will explore some of the scientific principles on how and why things glow! Included is some amazing glow-in-the-dark stuff to take home including slime, sun-changing beads, chalk and a UV torch!

Sydney Story Factory’s talented students have written a panto, which will be performed across the street from their home at Redfern’s 107 Projects. It’ll be witty, wicked and wildly creative. Kids and adult volunteers from the writing centre will be performing the show, with all proceeds from the event going to the not-for-profit centre. Tickets will be available on the door.

Want to know what it’s about? The horrors of your first day at school, of course. There will be forgetful fairy-tale characters, torturous NAPLAN tests and the villainous Mr Sinister.

6) Babies Proms: The Little Drummer Boy

Since its publication in 1941, The Little Drummer Boy has been counted among the most popular Christmas carols. The story of a young boy who offers baby Jesus the gift of music reminds us all that simple gifts are often the best!

This unique concert offers an introduction to rhythm and percussion, exploring a number of classic Christmas carols. Children will learn about different percussion instruments, and even have an opportunity to play along with the Babies Proms ensemble on a drum of their own!

7) Kids In The Park

Kids in the Park is massive fun for kids of all ages, whatever their passion. School holiday activities happen every day from 21 December 2013 to 27 January 2014 at Sydney Olympic Park. Kids in the Park offers the largest range of school holiday activities in NSW and is your one-stop shop to keep the kids happy and entertained. Best of all there are heaps of FREE and affordable things to do for $20 or less.

9) Lego Acropolis

Following on from the extraordinary success of the LEGO Colosseum in 2012, the Brickman, Ryan McNaught, has turned his hand to one of the most iconic architectural monuments of Ancient Greece – the Acropolis!

The LEGO model displays the Acropolis both as it was in the fifth century BC and as it is today, as one of Greece’s most popular tourist attractions. Captured in LEGO are some of the Acropolis’ more famous visitors including Pericles, Lord Elgin, Dame Agatha Christie, and even Elton John.

Also on display is the museum’s 19th century plaster model of the Acropolis, which captured the building as it stood in 1895.

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